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Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management

By : Cecil 'Gary' Rupp
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Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management

By: Cecil 'Gary' Rupp

Overview of this book

Value Stream Management (VSM) opens the door to maximizing your DevOps pipeline investments by improving flows and eliminating waste. VSM and DevOps together deliver value stream improvements across enterprises for a competitive advantage in the digital world. Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management provides a comprehensive review and analysis of industry-proven VSM methods and tools to integrate, streamline, and orchestrate activities within a DevOps-oriented value stream. You'll start with an introduction to the concepts of delivering value and understand how VSM methods and tools support improved value delivery from a Lean production perspective. The book covers the complexities of implementing modern CI/CD and DevOps pipelines and then guides you through an eight-step VSM methodology with the help of a use case showing an Agile team's efforts to install a CI/CD pipeline. Free from marketing hype or vendor bias, this book presents the current VSM tool vendors and customer use cases that showcase their products' strengths. As you advance through the book, you'll learn four approaches to implementing a DevOps pipeline and get guidance on choosing the best fit. By the end of this VSM book, you'll be ready to develop and execute a plan to streamline your software delivery pipelines and improve your organization's value stream delivery.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1:Value Delivery
7
Section 2:VSM Methodology
13
Section 3:VSM Tool Vendors and Frameworks
18
Section 4:Applying VSM with DevOps

Eliminating waste in software development

In 2003, Mary and Tom Poppendieck released their book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, where they discussed applying Lean manufacturing concepts to software development. Their book maps seven forms of waste in software development back to the original Lean concepts of waste, as shown in the following table:

Figure 2.9 – Mapping Lean Manufacturing waste to its software development equivalents

These definitions of waste in Lean production and Lean software development have been around for 3 and nearly 2 decades, respectively. Since then, a great deal of thinking has evolved around Lean practices, which I addressed in my previous book, Scaling Scrum Across Modern Enterprises. For expedience, I'll recap the primary concept here in this section. However, I encourage those who want a deeper dive to explore the two chapters from my previous book devoted to this subject: Chapter 5, Driving Business Value...